Actor Sahil Khan was arrested on April 28 in connection with his alleged role in the Rs. 15,000 crore Mahadev betting app case. Sahil was produced in a court in Bombay which sent him to police custody till May 1. A special investigation team of the crime branch nabbed him from a hotel in Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh). He was then brought to Bombay.
Fifty-year-old Khan had fled Bombay on April 24 and had been dodging the police by constantly changing his location. After his anticipatory bail application was rejected by the Bombay high court on April 24, the police had been trying to arrest him.
A senior crime branch officer said that Sahil Khan was a partner in a betting app firm. He had been promoting the app through social media and had also forged some documents. He was asked to explain about the money trail. He did not cooperate in the probe, it is reported.
Sahil, who was among the top list of suspects in the Mahadev betting app case alongwith its promoters, Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal, had two weeks back appeared before the Bombay city crime branch office to record his statement. An FIR in the case was registered at the Matunga police station in Bombay in November, and the accused had been booked for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy under sections of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act.